Person    | Male  Born 4/2/1916  Died 23/10/1995

Hugo Manning

Poet.  Born as Lazarus Perkoff at "123 Oxford Street in Mile End Road"  according to UCL Archives.  His parents were Polish Jews so we believe the Mile End bit.  Spent 1938 - 43 in Argentina.  On h...

Person, Poetry, Africa, Argentina, South America

Alice Meynell

Poet and journalist.  Alice Thompson was born in Barnes.  Her paternal grandmother was an unmarried Creole.  Educated with her sister entirely by their father as they lived a peripatetic life mainl...

Person, Journalism / Publishing, Poetry, Italy

W. B. Yeats

Poet and dramatist. Born in Dublin to John Butler Yeats.  A member of The Rhymers' Club. Died in Roquebrune, France.

Person, Poetry, Seriously Famous, Theatre, France, Ireland

Henry Scott Holland

Person, Poetry

Joseph Brodsky

Russian-American poet and essayist. US Nobel Prize Laureate. Born Leningrad. Exiled from the Soviet Union in 1972, he settled in the USA, aided by W. H. Auden and others. There he taught and was ap...

Person, Poetry, Russia, USA